Saigon Shootout! Tet Offensive: The Embassy

It probably won’t be 100% historically accurate, but a free first-person shooter backed by The History Channel still sounds pretty cool. Working with The History Channel, Kuma Reality Games has released the latest episode in their Shootout! series of games.

This episode, called Tet Offensive: The Embassy, has players reliving a moment of America’s time in the Vietnam War. As their press release describes it,

The latest Shootout!: Tet Offensive chapter captures the essence of the Vietnam war in 1968 at the start of the Lunar New Year Celebrations, transporting players 20 miles northwest of Saigon where an American platoon has been battered and bloodied and is in dire need of back-up after a surprise offensive by Vietnamese forces. Gamers serve as members of the reinforcement troops of the Bravo Company who swoop through, quickly tracking the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops. The action escalates as their stealthy pursuit soon leads to a harrowing shootout through the jungles surrounding An My.

That sounds like a lot of searching and destroying right there.

The History Channel will also be sponsoring a Tet Offensive multiplayer event, with a map based on the US Embassy grounds at Saigon in 1968. The event will be happening on Saturday, December 26, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern). Winning pairs get to pick a DVD of the Tet Offensive episode as covered by The History Channel’s “Shootout!” or “Declassified.” Just check out the link for more info on signing up.

It probably won’t be 100% historically accurate, but a free first-person shooter backed by The History Channel still sounds pretty cool. Working with The History Channel, Kuma Reality Games has released the latest episode in their Shootout! series of games.

This episode, called Tet Offensive: The Embassy, has players reliving a moment of America’s time in the Vietnam War. As their press release describes it,

The latest Shootout!: Tet Offensive chapter captures the essence of the Vietnam war in 1968 at the start of the Lunar New Year Celebrations, transporting players 20 miles northwest of Saigon where an American platoon has been battered and bloodied and is in dire need of back-up after a surprise offensive by Vietnamese forces. Gamers serve as members of the reinforcement troops of the Bravo Company who swoop through, quickly tracking the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops. The action escalates as their stealthy pursuit soon leads to a harrowing shootout through the jungles surrounding An My.

That sounds like a lot of searching and destroying right there.

The History Channel will also be sponsoring a Tet Offensive multiplayer event, with a map based on the US Embassy grounds at Saigon in 1968. The event will be happening on Saturday, December 26, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern). Winning pairs get to pick a DVD of the Tet Offensive episode as covered by The History Channel’s “Shootout!” or “Declassified.” Just check out the link for more info on signing up.